Vietnam: Blogger critic missing and feared ‘kidnapped’ in Thailand

February 7, 2019 | Brainwave Science

SITUATION

A famous Vietnamese blogger is missing after he fled to Thailand to seek political asylum with a UN refugee agency, fueling fears in journalist community that he has been abducted by Vietnamese security agents.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has raised concerned over his safety and demanded all possible information regarding the disappearance of Truong Duy Nhat, a Vietnamese blogger with the US Congress-funded broadcaster Radio Free Asia (RFA) from the Thai authorities. RSF believe Vietnamese agents may have kidnapped Nhat on January 26 when he was visiting the Future Park shopping mall in Bangkok. However, Thai police claim they have no such knowledge about Truong Nhat and are not detaining him.

Police Colonel Tatpong Sarawanangkoon, a Thai official in charge of the kingdom’s Immigration Detention Center, said in the RFA report that Nhat was not among the center’s detainees.

The head of RSF’s Asia Pacific desk, Daniel Bastard, said, “We urge the Thai authorities to make every effort to shed light on Truong Duy Nhat’s extremely disturbing disappearance.” Daniel further suggest that if it is proven that Thai authorities are not involved in abduction then it would mean that Vietnamese agents are no longer bothered by international law. According to Radio Free Asia, other Vietnamese bloggers who have applied for refugee status in Bangkok say they think Nhat was abducted while in a shopping mall in suburban Bangkok.

Truong Nhat is widely admired as a blogger, even within circles of the ruling Community Party in Vietnam. Bui Thanh Hieu, another journalist who found asylum in Germany, wrote on Facebook he believed Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc may have ordered Nhat’s abduction as he is in possession of compromising information about the prime minister’s clan in Quang Nam province.

In 2014, RSF included him in its list of 100 ‘information heroes’. This isn’t the first time Nhat is facing such trouble related to his profession of publishing the truth. Nhat was arrested in 2013 and sentenced to two years in prison for ‘abusing democratic freedoms’ in his blog, Mot Goc Nhin Khac.

CHALLENGE

Thailand was formerly seen as a regional safe haven for journalists and dissidents, but the situation has deteriorated under nearly five years of military rule, with reported cases of dissidents being abducted by foreign agents or arrested and deported by Thai authorities to their respective home countries where they suffered harsh retaliation.

This is not the first time the Vietnamese government has been accused of abducting its citizen from abroad and violating international law. The Human Right Watch’s Bangkok-based deputy Asia director, Phil Robertson, accused Vietnam of “consistently engaging in hostile surveillance and harassment of Vietnamese and Montagnard who fled the country to escape political and religious persecution.”

Nhat’s disappearing case is somewhat similar to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi as we don’t know the end of Nhat’s story. Understanding the minimal time available, Thailand government and law enforcement are under relentless pressure from Human Rights Watch, Reporters Without Borders and other communities to identify the whereabouts of Nhat before he has the same fate as Khashoggi.

WHY ICOGNATIVE?

The fate of Vietnamese blogger depends on the thorough investigation held by law enforcement agencies in Thailand. In order to locate Truong Nhat, law enforcement personnel need accurate and reliable intelligence and evidence. The existing conventional investigative tools preferred by law enforcement agencies as an intelligence gathering method in above cases are time consuming and do not provide beneficial results due to lack of physical evidence.

Truong Nhat’s case demonstrates exactly why Thailand law enforcementagencies that encountered several complex asylum cases desperately need to look for an alternative method or process to gather accurate intelligence, verify the background check and identify the perpetrators in a short time period before it’s too late to help. Nhat’s case is a complex and challenge one for Royal Thai Police as it involves Vietnamese security agents and foreign consulates. In order to crack this case open, a non-intrusive, affordable and efficient technology with nearly perfect accuracy is desperately needed by the law enforcement personnel to gather accurate intelligence as stored in the human brain and verify the testimonies of witness and suspects related to this case.

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Law enforcement agencies around the globe can utilize iCognativetechnology in such complex recurring cases where journalists are threatened for excising their fundamental right to freedom of expression by home or foreign agencies. iCognative is the only technology the guarantees that no perpetrator, including the powerful one who threaten journalist in order to protect their infamous concealed activities, would remain unpunished for his crime due to his/her smartness or lack of available substantial evidence. In this case, all the necessary crime-related information could be accessible and verified with almost perfect accuracy once a 45-minutesiCognative test is conducted by law enforcementpersonnel on the suspects, witnesses or the person related to this case. Information such as: when and where Nhat was last seen or contacted by RFA associates, UN refugee agency members or Vietnam consulates members, what he was wearing at the time he was visiting the Future Park shopping mall, time of last visit to UN refugee agency, any suspicious activity of Nhat, what was he lately working on, any other motive behind disappearing and other vital information along with witness testimonies as well as testimonies of colleagues, friends and family including his wife, etc., would be easily verified and available to law enforcement personnel to investigate this case in the right direction once the test is completed.

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